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Define the data strategy that makes a fine-tune work and own the full post-training loop including hyperparameter iteration, data mixture, LoRA, and honest evaluation.\n\nDeploy to real-time control: Take policies from checkpoint to real-time closed-loop control - distillation, quantization, action chunking, latency budgets, and on-device/edge inference under the customer's cycle time and reliability requirements.\n\nMaster the full robotics stack: Work across NEURA OS and the control layer - real-time control, kinematics, motion planning, force/impedance control, and the safety architecture - and integrate learned policies cleanly with the low-level controller instead of treating it as a black box.\n\nHands-on system integration: Work directly on MAiRA, MiPA, LARA, and humanoid platforms alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams - end-effectors and tool changers, sensor selection and mounting, calibration, electrical and fieldbus interfaces, and the mechanical reality of the cell.\n\nEnable and support customers: Guide and onboard users to NeuraGym by reviewing training pipelines and scripts, identifying data quality issues, troubleshooting model behavior, and providing hands-on support to resolve persistent blockers.\n\nCross-functional collaboration: Serve as a key interface between Cloud and AI teams, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical alignment, and efficient problem-solving across domains.\n\nBuild evaluation rigor: Create the eval harnesses, success-rate benchmarks, and regression tests that decide whether a policy is ready for handover - and make failure modes visible before the customer finds them.\n\nResearch to production: Prototype techniques from recent papers together with the research team and bring the ones that survive contact with reality into production deployments.\n\nClose the feedback loop: Translate field experience and customer insights into actionable feedback for both the NeuraGym product roadmap and the NEURA core AI roadmap.\n\nWhat We Can Look Forward To\nYour education: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.\n\nML in robotics depth: Hands-on machine-learning experience in robotics - strong in at least one of vision-based manipulation, reinforcement/imitation learning, or multimodal models, and keen to learn the rest.\n\nFine-tuning expertise: Demonstrable experience fine-tuning large pretrained models for robotics or another domain: PEFT/LoRA and full fine-tunes, dataset curation, distillation, and evaluation. 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